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Wrestling With Religion: Pullman, Pratchett, And The Uses Of Story, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

While children's and young adult fantasy literature is often concerned with "first things," with the struggle between good and evil, or with the fate of the cosmos, still it is rarely overtly religious in the sense of direct engagement with "faith, religion and church(es)" (Ghesquiere 307). Perhaps it is children's literature's vexed relationship with didacticism that keeps fantasy writers for children from engaging directly with religious language and concepts, or perhaps it is the setting in an alternate world that enables allegorizing impulse rather than direct engagement. In either case, despite a tradition of fables, parables, and allegorical treatments of …

Great Expectations, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

Great Expectations was the penultimate novel completed by the most popular novelist of Victorian England, Charles Dickens. Born in Kent, England, in 1812 to a family of modest means but great pretensions, Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation and ambition. Dickens never forgot the period of financial crisis during his childhood, when following his father’s bankruptcy, he was taken out of school and forced to work in a shoe-polish warehouse. While the episode was relatively brief, it marked Dickens’s later life in many ways: in the development of his own ambitions, in his sympathy for the poor and …

"Cobwebs In The Sky": Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi As Hypertext, Joe Essid

English Faculty Publications

As many participants know, the annual Computers & Writing Conference provides good ideas for our classrooms and research. At the 2000 conference in Florida, a group of us sat in a hallway excited about a film we had just watched, the documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control. It seemed to us that consideration of cutting-edge film could become more than a single screening, an after-hours diversion during the conference. We agreed that many recent films incorporated elements of hypermedia in their sensibilities, even composition. An obvious example was the 2000 feature film Time Code, confronting the viewer …

Professional Rules And Responsibilitty: Whose Law?, Michele Goodwin

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

A Poem.

Androgenius, David Boyle

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

A Poem.

Elementum Amorum, Matthew Harper

The Messenger

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They Are Too Full, Carrie O'Brien

The Messenger

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(For) Jarvis Cocker, Yellow Ochre, David Staniunas

The Messenger

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Poetry I Clara Schumann's Response To The Death Of Her Husband, The Composer, Robert Schumann, . Anonymous

The Messenger

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Impressions, Lakeside, Katie Dixon

The Messenger

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A Passionate Eunuch To His Love Or Labor's Loves Lost, Matthew Harper

The Messenger

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Abel Resuscitated, Emily Kay Carson

The Messenger

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This Morning, Emily Avent

The Messenger

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Watching Rasheed Wallace, Daisy Decoster

The Messenger

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The Messenger, 2001

The Messenger

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The Craft, Daisy Decoster

The Messenger

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Poetry Miscellany

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Bryant Literary Review

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The Last Block Party, Bud Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

The sun is setting over the deserted soccer field near the burial mound.

In The New Guinea Highlands, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

I can't get over the belief

that the simplest people always know more;

Superior, Ryan Guth

Bryant Literary Review

These pine-dark

shores are seventy

thousand years old

Lesson One, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

All winter long

Sister Mary Julian would enter the classroom,

Post-Freudian Dreaming, Richard N. Bentley

Bryant Literary Review

I had a dream Tuesday night in which I was either attending a lecture

We Are Not Friends, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

There is something about the way the phone rings that lets you know it's Them - a kind of glitter in the chime, a certain je ne sais quoi to the cadence, which seems to skip a beat as if it can't believe that They are calling. You pick up, heart throbbing, getting ready to move your mouth, a sly frisson of sweat striking your palms.

"They asked me to call," Their assistant says. "They want you at the house next Thursday. And then you'll all go somewhere. A plane will be involved. You'll want to bring a passport. Until …

Reflections 2001, Jason Whisnant, Jennifer Carlile

Reflections

The 2001 issue of Reflections is edited by Jason Whisnant with Jennifer Carlile serving as faculty adviser. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Kelly Harrison, Sarah Donaldson, Abby Wolford. Award winners of the student art contest include: Denise Azzopardi, James Colwell, Gabrielle Donaldson, and Erick Wince. Award winners of the student photography contest include: Kelly Harrison and Anna Marie Martin.

Reviews, Sandi Albertson-Shea, Susan A. Schiller, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Sandi Alberston-Shea. Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age. (Michael Blitz and C. Mark Huribert, 1999).

Susan A. Schiller. Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum. (John P. Miller, 2000).

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm. Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice. (Mary Rose O'Reilly, 1998).

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The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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Editors' Message

Morris Berman tells the story of his maternal grandfather, who, when he was five years old in 1883 or 1884, was sent to a Jewish elementary school in Belorussia. On the first day of class, the teacher startled the young boy by taking each child's slate and smearing the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet—aleph and beys—on it in honey. His grandfather's first lesson consisted of eating the letters off the slate. The symbolism of this act is complex, Berman muses, but central to the ritual is the belief that what is real must be taken into …

Imperfection: The Will-To-Control And The Struggle Of Letting Go, W. Keith Duffy

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

As I found myself beginning to appropriate my students' writing more and more, I wondered if this was evidence of a spiritual imbalance—an unwillingness to acknowledge my own imperfection as a teacher and human being.

A Poetics Of Student Writing, Dennis Young

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Focusing on student reflective essays about learning writing, I rely on depth psychology and hermeneutics to illustrate the image-making, poetic dimension of student work.